If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in
peace...
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even
chance
to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They
are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should
have equal rights upon it....Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to
stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free to
follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself,
and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
(Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader
